What Do you Think of the New Package?

These cars are too stable which makes the RACES more predictable. The RACING its self (cars against cars) may be closer and more competitive it seems so far. I miss guys sliding, scraping the wall, and rubbing against each other when they pushed too hard racing side-by-side. Sometimes I was faked out today and went "oh wow 4 wide!" only to see firmly planted cars come out of it, each without any type of advantage. Is that racing? Who knows.

Whoever said this will cause "slot car racing" was dead-on. It really is that.
 
i just hope danika does not return,
now that any no talent uber jockey can drive these cars.
 
It just seems like it takes so long to track the guy in front of you down when you're each only out of the throttle a split second. And it pretty much negates the high line completely. I don't really know what to think, I'm not a fan of momentum racing. The race today was ok.
 
I didnt mind the racing.. it wasn't what they thought it would be but I dont think anyone really wanted pack racing at Vegas anyway.

The cars could make passes and the leader was not untouchable in clean air.

Also I think it's safe to say at this point in the season that Team Penske is the team to beat.

3 races in.. 2 cars in the playoffs :)
 
As a car guy I’m never going to be able to wrap my head around slower-is-better from a competition standpoint. :idunno:
I haven’t even watched yet this year.
I was already losing interest in the sport with the silly stages, lottery qualifying, playoffs...
Knowing that racecars are going slower is really not pushing me toward wanting to watch.
Well look at it this way, cars are slower on every short track and road race and that is damn good racing. If raw speed is your game you may want to give up on Nascar and take up drag racing.
 
These cars are too stable which makes the RACES more predictable. The RACING its self (cars against cars) may be closer and more competitive it seems so far. I miss guys sliding, scraping the wall, and rubbing against each other when they pushed too hard racing side-by-side. Sometimes I was faked out today and went "oh wow 4 wide!" only to see firmly planted cars come out of it, each without any type of advantage. Is that racing? Who knows.

Whoever said this will cause "slot car racing" was dead-on. It really is that.
I think you watched the race with your fixed opinion in mind and only wanted to see anything that confirmed it. I saw cars bounce off the wall, cars drafting and loosing control as well as Kyle shooting himself in the foot. All in all I noticed ALL the Toyota's complaining so it tells me they loss any advantage they had.
No 3 peat here, move on folks.
 
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I will say I have a hard time understanding why those in the industry who either like it or don’t like it are quick to push their opinion, almost like forcing those of us who are still on the fence about it to think like them. Even on here there are a few who are quick to say “it’s a resounding success!” or “this sucks!” I never really understood that. It’s like people can’t have their own opinions or think for themselves, but that’s the trick.....despite what you want or feel the narrative should be we all will have our own interpretations of it whether it suits your narrative or goes against it.
 
I will say I have a hard time understanding why those in the industry who either like it or don’t like it are quick to push their opinion, almost like forcing those of us who are still on the fence about it to think like them. Even on here there are a few who are quick to say “it’s a resounding success!” or “this sucks!” I never really understood that. It’s like people can’t have their own opinions or think for themselves, but that’s the trick.....despite what you want or feel the narrative should be we all will have our own interpretations of it whether it suits your narrative or goes against it.

eh, well, I remember not too far back, you didn't have any problem stating your opinion about how bad this horrific package was going to be before they turned a wheel. If that is on the fence, it's a new one on me. And I was the dark Hun for even trying to explain the packages for the different sized tracks. Now is not the time to get all self righteous and blast both sides now. I said many times that I was for the playoffs when they first came out, but after seeing how they worked I changed my mind. I would do the same thing here if I didn't like the racing it produced. But so far at the first 1.5 track it has been tried on, I thought it was pretty good and I can see it's potential especially if a late race caution happens. I am not surprised that almost the same top 10 that finishes every race were in the top 10 at this race.
 
I think what we have here is another Toyota whiner because they have no advantage.
I mean, it's not unlike what Harvick and Logano and may others said. A lot of on-throttle time was the norm. Go back and watch Joey's VL interview when he had the headset on with the FOX booth - he said there was hardly lifting.

I thought that was always the case
They were not carrying over 160 MPH through the corners at Las Vegas previously as they were yesterday. The distinction yesterday between maximum and minimum speed was below 20 MPH - well below what was previously seen at Las Vegas.

I don't really care if you enjoyed it or not but the driver inputs weren't the same. Whole different story.
 
So this package isn't the "pack racing" we were all promised, which depending on your view is either a good or bad thing. That aside, strictly compared to last year these last two races have been excellent by 1.5 standards.

One of the biggest differences I can see is just how the drivers go about battling each other. In the low downforce era, a better handling car would simply dive into the corner and blow by the car ahead without much time lost. Some may call that good racing but to me it takes the driver vs driver element (one of the big selling points of NASCAR) out of it. Yesterday and at Atlanta was so much different.

The leader and 2nd place car could trade places back and forth over the course of multiple laps. We saw this yesterday with Kyle Busch vs Logano in stage 2 and logano vs Kez with 40 to go. When was the last time you saw a "pass-back", as humpy wheeler would say, outside of a superspeedway race? If this were last year's package Keselowski would have won the race because there'd be no way for Joey to fight back after losing the lead in lapped traffic.

I have no idea why this is, because from a technical standpoint it makes no sense. Clint Bowyer and Denny Hamlin were complaining that the track was single groove because why do anything else beside hold it wide open around the bottom, the shortest way around? And yet we saw cars get huge runs off the top lane all race long. Slide jobs and crossover moves shouldn't be a thing when everybody has so much grip and yet that's exactly what happened. From the TV perspective Vegas and Atlanta looked a lot like a typical intermediate race, but with better restarts, better battles up front, and closer intervals. That's a win in my book.
 
Yep, I'll take the top one.
A lot of people that say that are probably the same ones who complained about the racing last year. Not saying you're one of them.. Just saying.

I for one have no complaints.. I didnt last year and I dont this year.. I like watching racing in every form. Cars on track is what I look for in a race. The rest is what it is.
 
Oh, one other thing: if this kind of racing happens at Talladega, fans are gonna flip sh*t.
 
So this package isn't the "pack racing" we were all promised, which depending on your view is either a good or bad thing. That aside, strictly compared to last year these last two races have been excellent by 1.5 standards.

One of the biggest differences I can see is just how the drivers go about battling each other. In the low downforce era, a better handling car would simply dive into the corner and blow by the car ahead without much time lost. Some may call that good racing but to me it takes the driver vs driver element (one of the big selling points of NASCAR) out of it. Yesterday and at Atlanta was so much different.

The leader and 2nd place car could trade places back and forth over the course of multiple laps. We saw this yesterday with Kyle Busch vs Logano in stage 2 and logano vs Kez with 40 to go. When was the last time you saw a "pass-back", as humpy wheeler would say, outside of a superspeedway race? If this were last year's package Keselowski would have won the race because there'd be no way for Joey to fight back after losing the lead in lapped traffic.

I have no idea why this is, because from a technical standpoint it makes no sense. Clint Bowyer and Denny Hamlin were complaining that the track was single groove because why do anything else beside hold it wide open around the bottom, the shortest way around? And yet we saw cars get huge runs off the top lane all race long. Slide jobs and crossover moves shouldn't be a thing when everybody has so much grip and yet that's exactly what happened. From the TV perspective Vegas and Atlanta looked a lot like a typical intermediate race, but with better restarts, better battles up front, and closer intervals. That's a win in my book.

Good points. You basically described everything I liked about it yesterday.
 
I duno.. to me it looked like the fastest cars could pass people. Then again maybe it's the cars who can get by people that make them the fastest.. oh wait.. that's how racing works

I have to conclude at this time that Kyle did not have the fastest car. So yes.. naturally ..that is NASCARs fault :rolleyes:
 
A lot of people that say that are probably the same ones who complained about the racing last year. Not saying you're one of them.. Just saying.

I for one have no complaints.. I didnt last year and I dont this year.. I like watching racing in every form. Cars on track is what I look for in a race. The rest is what it is.

Yeah definitely not, I loved last year and beyond.
 
but, but they aren't going 160 in the corners, their inputs are off.
I love how he says he was running 31 flats til he caught Harvick then ran slower.. yes Kyle that's how drafting works.. someone give that man a cookie!

Catching a car doesnt make a good car.. passing them does. I've seen the Penske cars pass a lot of cars the past two races. Front of the pack or back of the pack they could drive up there and make passes. They're clearly ahead of the curve.
 
NASCAR got extremely lucky yesterday. They wanted pack racing and didn't get it, but the fact that they can't make in-car track bar adjustments saved the day, otherwise I think Harvick would have led every lap yesterday.

Clean air is definitely king once again. As teams get more experience with this package I expect less passing on long runs. Also, when NASCAR decides to start throwing phantom cautions with 20-30 laps to go, that's when the carnage will show up. 25-35 cars side by side with no way to pass each other. That will get "interesting" real quick.
 
STEVE O'DONNELL: I was. You know, you go back even before the race, and I think even some of the media and it probably came from the garage, we're going to wreck the entire field, this isn't going to be a race. Didn't happen. Some said Nascar's goal is pack racing. Not the case. Our goal was to bring cars closer together, have more lead changes, but again, was surprised. I think if we had more green flag restarts I think you probably would have seen one or two wrecks, but we'll see. It's early, again, and I'd rather err on the side of not wrecking cars and having some lead changes versus having that happen through accidents.

STEVE O'DONNELL: I think that's fair. You look at it, and I've learned a long time ago to ‑‑ I think Mike telling me, hey, let the race play out, and that's what happens. You never know. I was certainly glad to see that drivers were able to come up and make a pass for sure and thought Stage 2 and 3 were much more the direction we wanted to see for this race.

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As far as the racing goes I’m in the camp that doesn’t care for slot car momentum style currently on display. The bigger question is will this style of racing encourage young people to check the series out or entice former fans to take another look?
 
NASCAR wanted closer racing where the leader couldn't get out front, and they wanted drafting. These goals were explicitly stated (unlike "pack racing" and "big wrecks" which were NOT said).

Harvick was jumping out to 4+ second leads...and the leader had a definite advantage because...those big spoilers make DIRTY AIR unless you're right behind the guy...not drafting.

So I'd say NASCAR really f'd up with their company goals. Steve should be sweating bullets. 2 races in with this new package and both winners were from the same team. Unfortunately in this sport the gap between the "haves" and the "have nots" tends to grow with time...not shrink...
 
NASCAR wanted closer racing where the leader couldn't get out front, and they wanted drafting. These goals were explicitly stated (unlike "pack racing" and "big wrecks" which were NOT said).

Harvick was jumping out to 4+ second leads...and the leader had a definite advantage because...those big spoilers make DIRTY AIR unless you're right behind the guy...not drafting.

So I'd say NASCAR really f'd up with their company goals. Steve should be sweating bullets. 2 races in with this new package and both winners were from the same team. Unfortunately in this sport the gap between the "haves" and the "have nots" tends to grow with time...not shrink...

They did? that's funny, the stats have been posted many times, they set a record for passes for the lead, and a 100‑hundred lap green flag run with no cautions, top four within 2.5 seconds of each other at the finish. Hey I'm not jumping up like a fan boy but dang if that isn't closer racing with last laps fighting for the lead, I really don't know what race some people watched.
 
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